Our Research Committee

The Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation is supported by a Board of Directors and Research Committee made up of highly qualified and esteemed individuals.

The curriculum vitae of the research committee members of the Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation are shown below:

Dr Charles Mitchell, MBBS, FRACP, FAFOM

Dr Mitchell is a respiratory physician who was until recently the Chair of the Division of Medicine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane and is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at The University of Queensland. He has for many years had an interest in medical education, particularly in the teaching and learning of communication skills, and is an author of the textbook "Medical Consultation Skills - Behavioural and Interpersonal Dimensions of Healthcare". He is a Past President of The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and of The Australian and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine. In recent years he has chaired the Specialities Board of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Graeme Leslie Beardmore, MBBS, DDM, MACD, FACD

Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Queensland; Visiting Dermatologist, Greenslopes Private Hospital; Clinical Teacher, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland; Member, Scientific Research Committee, Australasian College of Dermatologists.

Edwin Anthony Blackwell, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA

Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicine, The University of Queensland; Consultant Physician in Clinical Haematology and Medical Oncology, Greenslopes Private Hospital; Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland.

Judith Ann Clements, BAppSc, MAppSc, PhD FAIMT

Professor School of Life Sciences, Queensland University of Technology; Principal Research Fellow (NH&MRC); Program Leader, Hormone-Dependent Cancer Program, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, QUT.

Jonathan Fawcett, MBBS, PhD, FRCS (Eng)

Professor of Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery and Consultant Surgeon, The University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital and Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane; Deputy Director, Queensland Liver Transplant Service, Princess Alexandra Hospital and Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane.

Richard Varney Jackson, MBBS, FRACP, BSc (Hons)

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Queensland; Professor of Medicine - Griffith University School of Medicine; Member of Department of Medicine at Logan Hospital.

Andrew John Nicol, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA

Consultant Haematologist, Greenslopes Private Hospital; Director, Centre for Immune and Targeted Therapy, Gallipoli Medical Research Centre; Chairman of Haematology and Oncology, Greenslopes Private Hospital; A/Prof of Cancer Medicine, The University of Queensland; Visiting Haematologist, Royal Brisbane Hospital.

Andreas Obermair, MD FRANZCOG, CGO

Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist, Greenslopes Private Hospital; Director of Research Gynaecological Oncology, Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer; Professor in Gynaecology and Obstetrics, The University of Queensland Medical School.

Glenda Joyce Powell, AM, MBBS, FRCP (Edin), FRACP, FAFRM

Visiting Consultant in Geriatric Medicine and Rehabilitation, Greenslopes Private Hospital; Visiting Consultant in Geriatric Medicine and Rehabilitation, Princess Alexandra Hospital Private Practice; visiting rights to Greenslopes Private Hospital; Emeritus at Princess Alexandra Hospital; Practice limited to medical legal consultations.

Christopher Robin Strakosch, MD, FRACP

Consultant Endocrinologist, Greenslopes Private Hospital; Associate Professor, University Department of Medicine, Greenslopes Private Hospital.

Alpha Yap, MBBS, PhD, FRACP

Associate Professor & NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Head, Division of Molecular Cell Biology Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland.